From AlanD: Festive Root Vegetables for Turnip28 (35 Points)

 I don't feel good about any of this.

I've been amused and bemused this year by the weird little niche in our Zeitgeist that is Turnip28. If you aren't familiar with this nonsense, it's a setting, and game, designed by the British artist Max Fitzgerald about a post-apocalyptic Napoleonic/Medieval world where root vegetables are essentially taking over. More succinctly, as Max Fitzgerald has explained, 'it's about turnips'. Such is the insidious creep of The Root that even Curt has come under its influence.

Paul O'G has spent much of the last 6 months wearing me down by sending me daily turnip photos. I've actually been incredibly focused in my hobby time this year, painting a 28mm Soviet force for Battle Group to match the Romanians I worked on in AHPC XII. But finally, I have succumbed. The charm of this nonsense is the opportunity to kitbash ludicrous figures from the sorts of bits we all have lying around, mashing together anything so long as the technology doesn't extend much further than 1805. Some of the great figures Paul has come up with actually make me laugh out loud. I've had a lot of fun so far making some figures of my own, while listening to suitably thematic music, with songs like 'Swede Child of Mine', '24 Hour Parsnip People' and 'Counting the Beet'.

One of the factions in Turnip28 rejoices in the name 'The Lopers of Maudlin Marsh', who are able to field a unit of Lopers - permanently drunk stilt walkers who stagger about the battlefield. That's what I've modelled here, using bit of Victrix Highlanders, Perry WotR, GW Sylvaneth, Warlord ECW, some 3D printed bits, tufts, Sculpey, a metal barrel, bottles that were once Soviet Molotov cocktails, some Frostgrave bits, copper wire, Greenstuff and bamboo skewers. Oh, and a shield from Fireforge. It amuses me that men on stilts would be heavily armoured from the waist up, but wear kilts, and that most of them wear helmets that prevent them from seeing what's below them.

Anyway, enough of this madness. If we count the little swampling parsnip musician that I made from Sculpey, I think these guys should get me on the board in AHPC XIII, and in the Turnip Side Duel, with 35 points. 

I'll finish with a photo of the current state of my worktable. Shameful, I know!

I wish you all a very happy festive season, and a wonderful painting challenge.

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Oooh, these are simply fabulous, Alan. I looove the Turnip28 setting, and these models of yours fit the mood perfectly. I love the Loper faction (cult?), but have been too shy (ie lazy) to make up figures for it. But now there they are, and I now need some! I love the wonderful effects you've achieved by your kitbashing, especially the bottles and various accoutrements. I also appreciate your thematic root vegetable backdrop - genius.

I'm going to give a couple of points each for all the mad modifications. Wonderful work, Alan, and welcome back to the Challenge!

- Curt